From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:08:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004171508.22865.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hqcbdb$ggh$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> > Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!
> >
> > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop?
>
> One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie
> because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any
> cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses
> installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron?
A default install will configure cron to run
mkwhatis
slocate
logrotate
updatepciids
updateusbids
These are all very useful and your machine is somewhat crippled without them.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-17 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 0:58 [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping Matt Harrison
2010-04-15 1:58 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-15 8:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-16 1:27 ` Matt Harrison
2010-04-16 17:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2010-04-16 18:09 ` Stroller
2010-04-16 21:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-16 18:22 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2010-04-16 18:58 ` Mick
2010-04-16 18:29 ` Dale
2010-04-16 21:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 8:47 ` Mick
2010-04-17 10:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 12:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Lie Ryan
2010-04-17 13:08 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-04-17 14:19 ` Lie Ryan
2010-04-17 15:10 ` Mick
2010-04-17 15:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 18:12 ` Mick
2010-04-17 19:52 ` walt
2010-04-17 20:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-17 22:01 ` Mick
2010-04-17 22:05 ` Mick
2010-04-17 13:13 ` David Relson
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2010-04-17 22:27 ` David W Noon
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